2nd Time Around Developmental Resource Center Inc

🎉✨ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO AN AMAZING WARRIOR, BOARD MEMBER AND SISTER VONTRICE MARTIN ✨🎉

Today we celebrate a woman of strength, vision, and purpose 👑

🌸 Vontrice Martin
Co-Visionary of Empower Her Tommorrow
📸 CEO of VSW Photography
💪🏽 A true overcomer and walking testimony

Your life is a reflection of resilience, faith, and determination. Despite every obstacle, you continue to rise, lead, and create space for other women to shine.

You are not only a visionary

You are a movement 💖

Thank you for standing in purpose and helping build something that will impact generations of women to come.

We honor you.

We celebrate you.

We love you.

✨ Happy Birthday Queen! ✨

And to all our beautiful March Queens 👑 We celebrate YOU as well!

🖤 Did You Know?
Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman in Congress and ran for President despite resistance 🏛️

✨ Affirmation:
I am bold enough to take up space 👑

🖤 Did You Know?
Katherine Johnson’s math helped send astronauts into space, though her contributions were hidden for years 🚀

✨ Affirmation:
Even when unseen 👁️ my work has impact 🌟

🖤 Did You Know?
At just 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat months before Rosa Parks and faced harsh consequences 👊🏾

✨ Affirmation:
My courage counts ✊🏾 even if I am overlooked 👀

🖤 Did You Know?
Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat was years in the making, not a single moment of courage 🚌

✨ Affirmation:
I am allowed to say no 🚦 I honor my boundaries 💗

🖤 Did You Know?
Zora Neale Hurston faced poverty and rejection but preserved Black stories that shaped culture forever 📖

✨ Affirmation:
My story has value 📝 My life matters 💛

🖤 Did You Know?
Ida B. Wells risked her life exposing injustice when others tried to silence her ⚖️

✨ Affirmation:
I stand in truth 🖤 I refuse to be silenced 🗝️

🖤 Did You Know?
Denied flight school in the U.S. because she was Black and a woman, Bessie Coleman learned to fly in France and became a pioneer ✈️

✨ Affirmation:
Rejection will not stop me 🚫 I will find another way 🛤️

🖤 Did You Know?
Mary McLeod Bethune founded a school for Black girls with just $1.50 and unshakable faith 📚

✨ Affirmation:
What I have is enough to start again ✨ I trust the process 🙏🏾

🖤 Did You Know?
Born to formerly enslaved parents, Madam C. J. Walker overcame poverty and became one of the first self-made millionaires in America 💼

✨ Affirmation:
My background does not limit my future 🚀 I can build something powerful 💎

🖤 Did You Know?
Sojourner Truth was born enslaved, escaped with her child, and became one of the most powerful voices for freedom and women’s rights 🗣️

✨ Affirmation:
My voice matters 📣 I have the right to speak, heal, and be free 🕊️